Object Details
- Description
- A small, hand-built/modeled light brown earthenware tripod ewer with three thick, symmetrical "pantaloon" legs. The neck is tall, and the mouth is pinched at one end into a spout. The handle extends from the mouth of the vessel, opposite the pinched spout, down to the body of the vessel, and is attached to the top of one of the "pantaloon" legs. The surface is burnished and smooth.
- A small chip is missing from the rim. Scattered holes across the surface from burnt out organic inclusions. Overall, in very good-excellent condition. Some scattered spall-like areas, with fine white deposits and stained water marks.
- Provenance
- ?-2005
- Mr. and Mrs. Osborne (1914-2004) and Gratia Hauge (d. 2000) [1]
- From 2005
- The National Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Institution, by gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge, and Victor and Takako Hauge [2]
- Notes:
- [1] The Hauge family began collecting Asian paintings, sculpture, and ceramics in the late 1940s and would amass a large collection in the post-World War II years.
- [2] Ownership of collected objects sometimes changed between members of the Hauge families. See Deed of Gift, dated October 16, 2005, copy in object file. From 2005-2023 the work was part of the National Museum of Asian Art’s Arthur M. Sackler Gallery Collection and on March 21, 2023, the work was internally transferred to the National Museum of Asian Art Collection.
- Collection
- National Museum of Asian Art Collection
- Exhibition History
- Shaping Clay in Ancient Iran (September 8, 2018 to November 24, 2020)
- Previous custodian or owner
- Mr. and Mrs. Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Data Source
- Freer Gallery of Art and Arthur M. Sackler Gallery
- Date
- ca. 1000 BCE
- Credit Line
- Gift of Osborne and Gratia Hauge
- Medium
- Burnished earthenware
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 21.6 x 11.5 x 12.2 cm (8 1/2 x 4 1/2 x 4 13/16 in)
- Type
- Vessel
